Effects of Serving High-Sugar Cereals on Children's Breakfast Eating Behavior
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Low-sugar cereal served with fruit is found quite acceptable by youth as a breakfast choice.
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Preventing Obesity in the Child Care Setting
December 9, 2009 | Report
Report authors encouraged states to adopt specific regulations for child care, using those developed by a team of experts and included in the report as a guide.
Does Reducing Calories in Foods for Preschoolers Affect How They Eat?
August 30, 2010 | Program Result
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University College of Health and Human Development tested the effect of changes in foods provided by day-care centers to their pre-schoolers.
Make Every Day a Healthy Day!: Sesame Workshop Distributes Nutrition and Physical Activity Kit to Child-Care Providers Serving Preschoool Children
August 11, 2010 | Program Result
The Sesame Workshop distributed 14,000 copies of the Healthy Habits for Life Child Care Resource Kit in English and Spanish to home-based child care providers to help them integrate nutrition and physical activity into their daily routines.
Tooling up for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in Child-Care Centers
May 11, 2009 | Program Result
Researchers with the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation in Wisconsin evaluated use of a toolkit designed to help child-care centers prevent overweight among young children by encouraging healthy eating and physical activity.
Child-Care Settings Before Kindergarten are Related to Kids' Obesity
March 22, 2010 | Program Result
Researchers found that children in family, friend and neighbor care the year before kindergarten were more likely to be obese at the start of kindergarten than children in parent care.
Child Care as an Untapped Setting for Obesity Prevention
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
In addressing the obesity epidemic, the authors examined state policies surrounding diet and screen exposure among different child-care organizations across the United States.
Evaluation of the New York City Day-Care Policy to Prevent Childhood Obesity
September 8, 2009 | Evaluation
The evaluation studies the regulations’ impact on children’s diets and levels of physical activity and the factors affecting implementation of the regulations in New York City's licensed day-care centers.
Healthy Eating Research
April 5, 2013 | Program Result
Healthy Eating Research aims to reduce childhood obesity by funding studies to examine policy and environmental approaches with potential to improve children's diets - especially children in the groups at the highest risk for obesity.
Addressing Childhood Obesity by Studying Preschool Children
May 31, 2011 | Story
Studying what preschoolers in child care centers in California are eating and drinking - and the quality of food and beverages served.